The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Houston -- for the third year in a row -- is the chunkiest city in the country.The "fittest city" is Honolulu, HI.

January 6 - Men's Fitness

FEATURE

"Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated." Architects, planners and consulting professionals respond to recent claims of New Urbanism's extinction.

January 6 - Lucy Rowland, Michael Mehaffy, and Members Of The Pro-Urb Listserv

L.A.'s mammoth water agency appears to have played chicken with the federal government and lost. Southern California's water allocation from the Colorado River is halved.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

The most powerful factor in the Downtown expansion is the loft boom. Once dismissed as unattainable, there are now almost 20 loft projects scheduled for completion by the end of 2003.

January 5 - Downtown News

An Oregon State task force introduces a proposal to use satellites to track driver's mileage and tax that driver accordingly to pay for road repairs.

January 5 - CNSNews

Introducing the first housing development planned around the needs of koalas.

January 5 - National Geographic

Lake Elmo and the regional Metropolitan Council battle over whether the Council can force growth into unwilling local cities.

January 4 - St. Paul Pioneer Press

In California's Central Valley, farmers form a strategy for steering growth.

January 4 - High Country News

An editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer clearly explains why more downtown parking is the wrong approach to planning.

January 4 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Reason looks back at 2002's science and environmental policy stories.

January 4 - Reason Online

Mayor Anthony A. Williams plans to announce initiatives to make Washington D.C. more attractive for new residents.

January 4 - The Washington Post

Researches at two U.S. universities have found the "fingerprint" of global warming.

January 3 - Scientific American

The newest proposals for Ground Zero understand nothing about New York.

January 3 - City Journal

The largest vineyard planting on the Northern California Coast is planned despite a 'grape glut.'

January 3 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

A bitter years-long fight to build new homes in an historic district is still not over. Nearby neighbors are still opposed to the development project.

January 3 - The Baltimore Sun

Environmental advocates and housing advocates finding common ground in Massachusetts.

January 3 - The Boston Globe

Gov. James E. McGreevey is determined to change the image of New Jersey as an overpopulated, polluted state.

January 3 - The New York Times

Urban areas are increasingly spreading into the countryside, pitting farmers against developers.

January 3 - The Christian Science Monitor

Farms' new residential neighbors drawn by pastoral setting but don't like farming realities.

January 3 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Internet-based online listing services 'disintermediate' the National Association of Realtors and multiple listing services?

January 2 - The San Francisco Chronicle